Green Course Campaigns: Public Transportation
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Transportation Today
In the world we live in transportation has a central role. We use transportation methods to reach the places we work, shop, meet, and travel. On average 12% of our income is spent on transportation. In the 90s alone the amount of cars in Israel doubled (!) And since 2000, every year 45,000 vehicles were added to the roads of Israel. Consequently, additional roads have been built to overcome the ensuing gridlock, but in such a small country as Israel this has become a major problem: traffic-jams are routine, air-pollution rates are increasing and road accidents are more common than ever!
The main problem of road infrastructure today:
If the rate of road building is far lower from the rate of cars added to the road systems, is it then reasonable for the roads' area to double as the amount of cars double in a decade? Leading specialists from the Technion (Prof. Mahalal, Prof. Fershker, Prof. Shiftan) have explicitly articulated their opinion that we will never be able to stick to the doubling in need for roads! Even the spokesperson of the Trans-Israel Highway (Road 6) has said that by the year 2008 it will likely be jammed in the central part of it during pressure hours…
Too many roads thereby catalyze the process of suburbanization in which people leave the center of the city for the benefit of living in the suburbs. In the suburbs supplying methods of public transportation become less efficient. This increases the use of cars and eventual gridlock, bringing us back to the starting point.
How can we change this? How can millions of people be transported from place to place in a less polluting way & with less accidents? Well, the answer is crystal clear: sustainable transportation.
To learn more about Green Course's Campaign for Sustainable Transportation, and how you can contribute to it contact: info@green.org.il
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